FADER Mix: DJ Escrow

Dean Blunt’s DJ is your selector for nearly an hour of the hardest rap.

By the time Dean Blunt announced his hip-hop project Babyfather in summer 2015, his output was so ambiguous that some wondered if DJ Escrow, billed as the host of their mixtape BBF: Hosted By DJ Escrow, was even an actual person. But he is very real, as I saw in person during his fantastic opening DJ set at a show in Toronto back in September. We had to ask Escrow to bring some of that heat to our weekly FADER Mix series, and he delivered a powerful combination of contemporary grime, road-rap, and stateside hip-hop bangers. You'll hear Wiley, 67, MoStack, 21 Savage, Rae Sremmurd, and much more, all rallied by Escrow the selector, giving the raw recording an even stronger resemblance to a ripped pirate radio broadcast from deep within London.